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The most beautiful and candid answer to the “Why do women love reading romance novels?” question… : r/RomanceBooks

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r/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. Happy Endings guaranteed. “In our love-starved culture, both men and women are desperately looking for a connection with someone. At our innermost core of self, we are relational creatures. We crave a deep and lasting bond with another human beings. Someone we can trust, with our deepest secrets, and our scariest moments and our darkest, most wicked fantasies. Someone we can rely on to never betray us and to love us as we have always secretly desired to be loved. And if we can't have that in real life, we at least want our beloved fictional characters to have it. “Women in particular read romance because they are almost always romance starved. Women crave romance the same way men crave sex. For a woman, the two are very different, and reading a romance novel gives them

Comments Section Personally I read because it turns my brain off like nothing else on the planet. I also feel very fulfilled in my relationship, so dunno about the blanket statement. Same. It is more of an escape for me. I removed most of my Reddit contents in protest of the API changes commencing from July 1st, 2023. This is one of those comments. No offense intended but I think this is a pretty surface level psych 101 kind of answer. It speaks a lot to my personal reasons as I've never had a fulfilling romance in real life and I shamelessly live vicariously through the stories. But I…

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